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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

BELFERT, BILFERT, BULFERT, n. Something or someone over the usual size. [′bɛlfərt, ′bɪlfərt, ′bʌlfərt]Bnff.4 1933:
Fat a bilfert o' a loon he's growing. He's gettin mair gin deef nits ony wy.
Bch. 1912 (per Abd.9); also Abd.22:
He was a great fat bulfert o' a loon.
Bch. 1929 (per Abd.1):
That belfert o' a sheaf'll stan' atween's an' the win'.

[See Bilf, n.2, and Bulf; ert may be a reduced form of art, a Fr. suff. with pejorative force as in braggart, etc.]

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